Lissa Hunter is an American artist, whose work includes basketry, drawing and mixed materials.
Her professional activities include teaching, writing, and a long association with Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine as teacher, student and trustee.
Hunter was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 13, 1945 to C.
McCord Purdy, salesman and magician, and Ruth Gordon Purdy, secretary and untrained artist.
She attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where she studied drawing and painting, attaining the BA degree in 1967, and the MFA degree in Textiles in 1971.